Ricky Rimmer’scase headed to Michigan Supreme Court 9/11/25, after COA denial 7/17/25, trial Judge Christopher Blount denial 2/9/25; Judge son of cop Michael Blount, ally of James Harris, who framed Ricky in 1975
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Ricky Rimmer with mother Lovie Mae Rimmer, who died in 2023 waiting for his new trial.
Ricky Rimmer-Bey has been imprisoned since 1975, framed up by corrupt drug dealer cop James “Jimmie” Harris, who spent 20 years in federal prison for his crimes after drug bust in 1992. Rimmer-Bey needs support now as his case goes to the Michigan Supreme Court. This corrupt court system has unjustly denied his motions for a new trial and evidentiary hearing at every step, from trial judge Christopher Blount, to the Court of Appeals, which denied his appeal with only a few sentences as if it had not even read his extensive filings.
“I have done 47 years for a crime I did not commit,” Ricky Rimmer, now 68, told VOD today. “Sgt. James Harris told me to sell drugs for him, and I refused. He used to come through our neighborhood squeezing guys, shaking guys down, pushing them up against the cars. I wasn’t going to do that for him. I was young and scared of him, everybody in the neighborh00d was scared of him, they knew he was a dirty cop, putting guys in jail who hadn’t done anything. I knew he would set me up or kill me for refusing. He did both when he put me in here for life.”
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Willie Wimberly, 16-yr. old victim of 1999 Inkster drive-by shooting that killed one, injured two, testified Oct. 8, 2024 at evidentiary hearing that Mike D was not the shooter, as he told OIC Darian K. Williams and Sgt. Gregory Hill at the time.
By Diane Bukowski
Degraffenried wrote further, “[The prosecution] hid this information from the defense and allowed perjured testimony to be introduced to the jury through the state’s main eyewitness Broderick Ward, an eyewitness that the first responding police officer, Jamie Devoll. testified as to not being on the scene at the time of the shooting.”
A pre-trial date is set for Oct. 9, and new trial for Nov. 11 before Judge Green, Rm. 506, Wayne Co. Criminal Justice Center, 5301 Russell, Detroit, MI. 48211.*
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DETROIT — It is hard to believe so many Detroiters now disregard the city’s history as a vanguard of the Black liberation movement in the 1960’s and 70’s.
But in recent years, Detroiters have elected Black judges like Christopher Blount, whose father Michael Blount was one of the few Black cops on S.T.R.E.S.S., and other judges who also blatantly ignore the rulings of higher courts on false convictions, as they add to the devastation wrought in the Black community by mass incarceration. 
1971 ROCHESTER STREET MASSACRE of Wayne Co. Sheriffs involving among others: Sgt. JAMES HARRIS of S.T.R.E.S.S.
Ruling by USDC Judge Stephen A. Murphy, Magistrate Elizabeth Stafford is first victory in lawsuit vs. conditions at WHC, filed in 2019
MDOC Director Heidi Washington multiple other officials, represented by MI Atty. General Dana Nessel, promptly appeal to 6th Circuit Court
DETROIT–Six years after they filed a class-action suit regarding horrific conditions including rampant black mold and filthy ventilation systems throughout Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility, women there won an outstanding ruling from U.S. District Court Judge Stephen J. Murphy June 24, which adopted the March 12 Report of Magistrate Judge Elizabeth Stafford.
On qualified immunity, he said, “All defendants’ Eighth Amendment deliberate indifference claims must satisfy a two-part test with an objective and subjective component. The objective prong asks whether the inmate was incarcerated under conditions posing a substantial risk of serious harm. The subjective prong then asks whether officials knew of and disregarded that excessive risk to the inmate’s health or safety.” Here, Plaintiffs satisfy both prongs.”
Meanwhile, Jay Love, host of the podcast, “Turning a Moment into a Movement,” and Trishe Duckworth, head of Survivors Speak, have mounted an emergency campaign for the release and hospitalization of plaintiff Krystal Clark, who doctors say could die if she is not released from prison forthwith. They are asking people to call Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and email MDOC Director Heidi Washington.
Judge Ramsey noted for the record that Tooks’ acceptance of the settlement offer means that he gives up his right to a Miller hearing, any claim that the settlement offer is a result of promises or threats that were not disclosed on the record, and his right to appeal the sentence, except for newly discovered evidence or a change in the law that would retroactively apply to him or a violation of the settlement offer or Michigan statutes.
They continued to national victory after the U.S. Supreme Court declared mandatory juvenile life without parole unconstitutional in Miller/Jackson v. Alabama (2012) and Montgomery v. Louisiana (2016), which made Miller retroactive in the face of virulent opposition by many state prosecutors.
They are proof that the battle for the most oppressed, including people of color, youth, and especially those who have been consigned to die in our prisons, continues in Michigan, despite the climate created by our fascist, racist President Donald Trump. 
By Ife BJ 
She also got White to admit to the court that the activism that they had done together was “powerful, inspiring, and … beautiful”. Shakur asked Mr. White if he had misrepresented the Panthers to his police bosses. He said “Yes”. She asked if he had betrayed the community. He said “Yes.”
She and the others in the “Panther 21” case were acquitted in May 1971 after an eight-month trial. Altogether, Afeni Shakur spent two years in jail before being acquitted. At the age of 24, her son, Lesane Parish Crooks, was born on June 16, 1971. The following year, in 1972, Lesane Parish was renamed Tupac Amaru Shakur, which means “shining serpent” in Quechua.
